001I'd like to call to order sorry the May meeting of the Oak Hills Local School District Board of Education. If we can please rise for the pledgece to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Mr. B, you can call the role, please. Mr. Hy here. Mr. Nel here. Mr. Here, Mr. here. Mr. West here. First up, we have communications. Thank you, Mr. Mr. President, it's my honor to introduce Ken Rigbar, PTA advisory council president for this evening's Oakills PTA ties teachers. I'd ask the board to join us down at the office steps. Deal's PTA advisory council consists of PTA presidents from each building, the superintendent, the area adviser for Hamilton County, a board of education
002rep, the director of special services, as well as a president, vice president, treasurer, and secretary. Each year, each PTA selects a staff member to receive the team PTA award. This person is required to be involved in PTA. The recipients are then judged by members and one is chosen to receive the Oakill School District teen PTA award. The father of this year's recipients from Oak Hills High School, Travis Hunt. I guess Travis isn't here. Oak Hills local school district TNTA award is Aaron Phillips. Well, I guess Bridgetown Middle School's not here. It's Aaron Phillips. No middle school. Sandy Malloy. All right. Rapid Run Middle School. David Anderson Harrison Elementary School. Focus. Belshshire Elementary. Sarah Pollock. JF Gles Elementary. Allison Rack here at the elementary. Cindy Wesley, Spring Meer Elementary, Melissa Cal. Well, those are the winners.
003Anyway, like congratulations. All right. It's my distinct honor to uh for the retiree reception. So, we have some retirees here this night. So, good evening everyone and thank you for joining us for this very special occasion. Tonight, we gather here not only to celebrate a year worth of hard work and accomplishment, but to honor a truly remarkable group of individuals, our retirees. These are the educators, staff members, and leaders who have given so much of themselves to the Oakills local school district. And through the many years, they have inspired students, supported our colleagues, and helped shape the very foundation of our schools. Each retired here this evening we recognize has left an lasting impact and an incredible legacy. Not just through their hard work, but through their care, their dedication, and their unwavering belief in
004the power of education. They become mentors, role models, and lifelong friends. as they prepare to move into the new and exciting chapter of their lives. We want to just take a moment to thank each and every one of you for your service and to celebrate your achievements and accolades and wish you the very best in the years ahead in your next endeavor. Let's begin honoring each of these incredible individuals and reflecting on the legacy that each one of them leave behind. Virginia board line, crossing guard, bus driver, rabbit run transportation, 25 years. With 25 years of devoted service as a crossing guarded bus driver, Virginia has made a lasting impact on the lives of so many. Her warmth, patience, and dedication have touched countless children and families. As Virginia shared, over the years, the families
005that she has transported became more than passengers. They became dear friends. Each one has left a special place in her heart, and she will truly miss them. Her care and kindness have made our district better, and she will be deeply missed. Congratulations, Virginia. Our next retiree is Tina Brown, bus driver, transportation. years. With 28 years of dedicated service, Tina has been so much more than a bus driver. She has been a trusted presence, a warm smile at the start of each day, and a steady hand ensures students arrive safely year after year. Her care, reliability, and commitment to the Oakills community have made a lasting difference, and she will be deeply missed and finally remembered by generations of families. Congratulations, Tina. movie. Our next retire is Mark Bruns, building manager, Oakills High School in Delh
006High Middle School, 25 and a half years. With 25 and a2 years of dedicated service, Mark has been the heart of the high school, quietly leading with kindness, dedication, and an unwavering work ethic. As building manager, he kept everything running smoothly, often behind the scenes. Yet, his impact was felt in every corner of the school and every square foot. I can attest to that. always willing to lend a hand. His presence will be deeply missed, but his legacy of care and commitment will remain for many years to come. Congratulations, Mark. Next up is Lisa Cox, preschool age. John Foster Dulles, 18 years. With 18 years of devoted service, Lisa has been a gentle guiding presence for our youngest learners. Her patience, warmth, and dedication have helped shape a strong foundation for countless children and and
007her impact will be felt for many years to come. Again, Lisa, congratulations on your 18 years of service and we wish you the best in your future endeavors. There are I apologize. There are a couple gifts that are in order just from the late entry. So, we apologize and those will be delivered as soon as those come in for a couple. Our next retire is Emily Casease, teacher. Rapid run. Emily was a teacher at Rabbid Run, Delh High, Bridtown, and Dallas. 30 years. 30 years of dedicated service. Oils has been so fortunate to have a teacher who has not only inspired students, but also left a lasting impact on colleagues, families, and the entire school Oills community. Emily's hope has always been to help others grow through meaningful connections and without a doubt she has
008done just that. We are all better for having shared time with her. Congratulations Emily. Our next retiree, Diane Kriswell, teacher, spring, 36 years. With 36 years of service, Diane has made an incredible impact at Springer, teaching across fourth through first through fourth grade with versatility, dedication, and heart. Her ability to connect with students at every level is a true testament to her talent and unwavering commitment to education. Congratulations, Diane, and thank you for your 36 years of service. Next up, Jenny Magro Escalich intervention specialist High School Graphic Run Middle School 30 years. Are you excited? I don't have to write anymore. Well, with over 40 plus years in education, include 27 in Oakland's local school district, Jenny has inspired students at every grade level through compassion and commitment. Her legacy of support and innovation will
009be felt for many years to come. Congratulations, Jenny, and thank you for your service. Thank you very much. Next up, Kim Martini, Food Service, Bridgetown, Milkills High School, Delh High, and Springer, 28 years. After 28 years of dedicated service in our school district, Kim has truly left a lasting mark in every career she has worked in. Bridgetown High School, Delh High, and Springire. Her dedication to feeding students with care and kindness has made a lasting impact and her presence is deeply missed across the district. Best of wish Kim and congratulations. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. Next up, Christy Reesei, teacher of CO Harrison, 19 years. After serving 19 years of service, Christy has lived with innovation and heart, shaping learning through her leadership roles, tech initiatives, and curriculum development. She now looks
010forward to her next chapter with her two young daughters and staying home to raise death. Congratulations, Christie, and thank you for your service. Kirk Reic, science teacher who kills High School. 20 years. With 20 years of experience, Kirk has brought heart and real world experiences to teaching science. From his time in the army to working in the cle cell lab, his creative approach like using sketch models made learning engaging and lasting. He leaves behind a meaningful legacy and resources that will continue to inspire generations to come. Congratulations, Kirk. Next up is Karen Shear, instructional assistant, Spring Meer, Dulles and Ross, 25 years. With 25 years of dedicated service, Karen has brought a constant source of support, kindness, encouragement to students and staff alike. From Spring Meer to Bellis to Margaret B. Ross, she brought patience,
011compassion, and a deep commitment to helping children grow and succeed. Her impact has been felt in every classroom and she leave behind a legacy of care and Christ strength that will not be forgotten. Thank you, Karen. Next up is Lin Lin Seaburn, media center 8, Oakdale, Se Harrison, 24 years of service. Describes her career spent with children as hitting the jackpot. She brought happiness to countless students while building lifelong friendships along the way. The impact she made over the last 24 years is truly priceless and a blessing to all students and staff and a reflection of a life and career well loved. Congratulations, Lyn. still here. There are several other that couldn't attend this evening. So, I'd like to just honor them and their years of experience in the district. Joyce Loy, instructional assistant at
012Oakdale for 27 years. Lorie Shaw, title one tuber, Delshot, 15 years. Jane Hannerhan, teacher, Delhi Middle School, 27 years. Kathy Mhaney, SLP, John Foster Dulles, 20 years. Lori Omen, EMA, secretary, district office. Springmire and John Foster Dulles, 34 years. Judy Davis, HR secretary at district office as well as the high school, 36 years of service. Cheryl Reed, aid, Rapid Run Middle School for 30 years. Sheriff Baltus, bus driver, transportation, 11 years. And Marcy Hayes, our food service secretary at district office, 35 total years between Oak Hills and Wyoming City School District. Congratulations to all of our retirees and thank you for your impact. We wish you the very best in all of your future endeavors. Thank you for being here. Mr. uh you're certainly welcome to come back for the regular portion of the meeting
013but I know Mr. Grankkey before everybody takes off uh in case you have to leave he'd like to meet you out in a common area for group 30. So again congratulations thank you for being here. Best wishes again your future endeavors. to see you. I'm sorry. Oh my god. Okay, continuing on with the meeting. If I can have a motion to adopt the agenda. Call, please. Yes. Mr. Yes. Mr. Philpot. Yes. Mr. West. Yes. M R. Yes. Hey, next up we have the treasures report. Mr. President, uh this evening, uh we do have a special guest. Uh Senator Bill Blessing is here to join us. And so I'll just give a brief introduction of Senator Blessing. Am I coming up, Bill? City Senator Blessing in his in his second term uh with the Ohio Senate.
014He currently serves the eighth district which is obviously our district. Uh prior to being a state senator, he served on the Ohio House of Representatives representing the 29th district. Uh, Senator Blessing earned his bachelor degree in mathematics as well as bachelors of science in electrical engineering from the University of Cincinnati. Uh, the senator is a licensed professional engineer and a member of the Ohio Professional Engineer Society. Uh, Senator Blessing also currently resides in Colin Township. And so, uh, we are just incredibly grateful for you to give your time this evening, uh, to give an update. Uh our board is aware and I think our community is aware. Uh times in the state of Ohio are probably uh as unpredictable as they have ever been uh between reappraisals and inflation and so on and so forth.
015And so for Bill to come this evening and share his thoughts is admirable and really appreciate it. And so uh we will move forward with some thoughts and ideas. Also important to note uh Bill serves on these committees. uh ways and means committee, the education committee, the finance committee as well as the financial institutes and insurance and technology. So he has a chair at the table uh and he has advocated on our behalf uh through and through. I think it's also important to understand what is the eighth district. Uh obviously state senators, there's 33 that represent us and so we thought our borders here in Oak Hills were a little bit wonky. Uh the eighth district is the dark blue shade. So, uh, Senator Blessing represents all the way from, you can see here, Butler
016County, all the way over to Milford, uh, and east side of town. So, uh, without further ado, Senator Blessing, again, thank you, sir. See if we can get that up there. I think we're all working. And, uh, you know, I hate to start this off with this discussion, especially after we've had what seems like such a cheery evening, and I'm going to be bringing in a lot of doom and gloom. And you know, frankly, I've been telling other school districts throughout Hamilton County and the state who have come to me air on fire, you know, what they should be doing. And, you know, Steve uh had uh run into me at a superintendence meeting, I want to say a couple months ago now, to talk about, you know, what a lot of the potential changes
017could mean to Oak Hills. And I this might have even been before this cash reserve piece appeared in the budget. And I'm sure you guys are all familiar with that where it looks at your you know your expenditures and your cash reserve. If your cash reserve is higher than 30% then the county budget commission has to rebate that to the taxpayers. County budget commission of course is the uh auditor, treasurer and prosecutor. Even that's up for change at this point because I think the prosecutor might be changed to being somebody that's appointed by the county commissioners. Be that as it may, uh the fiscal impact of this. So I can't go into detail for what it is uh for Oak Hills. I'm sure Steve could do that, but statewide we're talking about billions of dollars
018of potential losses to the school districts uh for the purposes of property tax relief, which I totally understand. I was chairman or I should say co-chairman of the property tax relief and reform committee uh at the last general assembly which was a biccameal bipartisan uh committee to study property taxes in Ohio and you know going through an election this past cycle. Yes, everybody wants to have property tax relief, but the polling goes really down on that when you add the qualifier. Well, what if it negatively impacts your schools? And this would absolutely devastate a number of schools. And for context, uh I don't have the number off the top of my head of how many school districts are in Hamilton County, but there are only four that are under that 30% threshold. One of them
019obviously non-healthy. Given their fiscal emergency status, they're in very, very bad shape. But despite trying to pull this particular provision out, and if you look through the comparison document, it's tax CD91 if you're interested. Um, this is only one of many potential issues coming at you. Um, another one is Senate Bill 66, which, uh, you know, a number of school districts, it's it's odd. I remember when I first got into this thinking that it was, you know, unthinkable that a school district like Cincinnati public could ever be on the 20 mil floor. But here we are. They are on the 20 mil floor and she had insult injury with this. Uh what's going on is there's Senate Bill 66 which is in the Ways and Means Committee of which I chair and what it seeks
020to do is to change what levies can be included in that 20 mil calculation. So it starts sticking more of these levies in there including income tax levies which probably has a constitutional problem with it. But the net effect of that is is instead of when you hit the 20 mil floor as you know at that point new valuations come online you start increasing with inflation if you remain on the 20 mil floor. Now since so many more things are included on it. It just bumps you up and effectively ratchets you down further below the 20 mil floor as compared to today. I think there's a very good possibility that that could wind up in the budget. Uh we also have um you know I haven't looked at the details of all the levies you
021guys put on the ballot. Uh replacement levies could be going away. That's House Bill 28. It's also in my committee. We've had one hearing. I don't have an intention of voting that out. But again, when you're talking about the budget, this is something that could very easily find its way in there. And this is all stuff that is going to eat away at a lot of the good government governance that you guys have done. You know, the attitude is, well, you're just hoarding cash uh at the local level. That's the attitude in Columbus with this. Instead of trying to be good fiscal stewards, having a decent cash reserve, which, oh, by the way, it wasn't that long ago that school districts were getting grief after the great recession. you guys need to have larger cash
022balances which many of you did and now it's like well you're just hoarding money so we need to put that back into the coffers of u the taxpayers and I think in the end that is going to be problematic but beyond that you have the school funding formula which obviously we're talking about you know 88 8.5 billion dollars per fiscal year that goes out in foundation formula funding And you know, I know that the fair school funding formula as it gets phased in isn't the best for Oak Hills. It's also not the worst either. I do think once that's fully phased in, I think it'll be much better. But even now as the House has passed their version of the budget, it's really just kind of a I don't want to call it a repeal,
023but they do this in temp law and make a lot of these temporary changes, hold districts harmless versus 2025, but the intention is very clear that they want to put in a new school funding formula. And I understand that, you know, there are folks that might be upset with this provision or that provision, but right, wrong, or indifferent, the fair school funding work group spent years trying to get this right. I don't know if Oakill was involved with that, but it's not something that a we can easily do, having um done this for years in Columbus working with school funding formulas. They're incredibly complex. But even if we were able to come up with something that worked quite well, how do you get school district buyin for that? And frankly, if we're ripping something out
024that had buyin from all these school districts statewide, how do we how do we get that buy in against? It's going to be incredibly complicated. But to give you, you know, some concept of where we're going, if we were to fully phase in the entirety of the fair school funding formula, you're looking about 900 million per fiscal year over where we are versus 2025. What the House did is roughly 250 300 million or so per fiscal year over 2025. So it's falling very short of where it could be. But see, the problem with this is that if you're going to look at all these and that the House would say, hey, you know, we every school district has been held harmless versus 2025. Nobody's losing district or money versus the prior fiscal year. Well, is
025that actually true? If that formula is combined with a lot of the property tax reform measures that are actually kind of siphoning money out from under you locally, I I think the answer is objectively it's not. there's going to be school districts losing money in this case. So, um my advice to you guys would be to reach out uh to members of the general assembly to the extent that you can pass a resolution. If you've already done this, I apologize. We've gotten several of them on on my desk, but it would be really important, I think, for you guys now to make your voices heard on that because otherwise the attitude often is, well, if we don't hear from somebody, you know, I guess they're okay with it. And I've heard that a lot from
026school districts throughout Hamilton County, uh, superintendents who have had the attitude that, well, do we really want to cross swords with the general assembly? And I understand that fear, but I wouldn't play around with this. Uh this is something that you have and you know, look, I'm a product of Catholic schools, but I think there is this profound shift towards we want to do more and more and more school choice. And it seems like public schools are an afterthought up there. And you know admittedly these past couple cycles we've had sort of a truce if you will where the um you know ed choice scholarships for example increased you know at the same clip relatively same clip as public school funding and since everybody got something you know we've moved forward but you know you
027look at issues that the got us into trouble in the courts years ago one of which was residual budgeting where the idea was well you can't just do this and this and this and this in the budget and then oh with whatever money's left. That's what goes to the public schools. I'm I'm afraid we're going to do that again where you're going to have an increase in vouchers. You're now going to have um ESAs, educational savings accounts for non-chartered non-public schools. Um you have all of these all this property tax relief on the backs of locals. there's a potential for an income tax cut uh this budget cycle, which by the way, if we were to get to a flat 2.75% income tax that doesn't benefit anybody under $100,000 a year, it'll cost the state
028a billion dollars per fiscal year. So, the question then is if you're going to do all these things, how can you say that the school funding formula as it's currently constituted is somehow unsustainable? It's not. we're just choosing to spend the money elsewhere. So, sorry for the doom and gloom on that, but you know, now would be the time to be reaching out. Uh budget is Senate side at this point. Uh you know, I think a lot of House members were probably caught by surprise. I wouldn't give anybody any particular grief simply because the budget being such an enormous document, a lot of this can escape members. Um, you know, a lot of times there's good in the budget that they may vote for and think, uh, you know, the good outweighs the bad, but
029again, I think now would be the time to speak up. So, if you have any questions for me, I will be happy to take whatever questions andor criticism if we want to go down that route. I don't I don't have any criticism. I'd actually like to say thank you for coming tonight, first of all, but mainly for being an independent voice because I know in Columbus we tend to have two sides and this side votes one way and this side votes the other way and you have proven that you're willing to uh take a common sense approach and do what's right as opposed to just doing what everybody on your side of the aisle says to do. So, we we greatly appreciate that. Um this this would be devastating to us. I mean it basically
030what the state does is they want to hold us harmless on the the state money, right? Our inflation because of more special needs kids every year and you know our it's not their teachers are getting rich. I mean they're getting 2 and a half% pay raises that we negotiated several years ago and so our costs are going up 3%. If the state holds us harmless on their end and then cuts us on our end, then that's negative. And you know, our our our budget in 2027, we're look like we're going to need a even if they don't do the 30% thing, we need to need to pass a levy. And we spend $2,000 less per student than the average school district in Ohio. So when they put a percentage on it, we're actually allowed to
031carry over a lot less money than the average school district is, which is crazy. And if you have a district that spends a whole bunch per student, they're allowed to carry way way way more money over. So, it's just, you know, I I appreciate all your efforts and and your hard work on this, but it's just really um there's just so many things. They want to get property tax relief. I understand that. I'd like to get property tax relief, but you can't take it from the state side and the local side when you're one of those school districts that are already spending way less than than the average school district. Yeah. That and that's Absolutely great point with this and that something I forgot to mention. You guys are on the guarantee and have been
032for quite some time, right? Um but you know beyond that with the property tax relief, this is something that I keep trying to tell the press. Let's suppose the cash reserve piece uh were to stay at 30% becomes law and all this money gets rebated to taxpayers. Normally when we talk about property tax relief and this was a common theme on the property tax relief and reform uh committee that we were on was that well you know we want to we want to target the relief and most people when they think of the targeted relief you think of senior citizens on fixed incomes makes the most sense. Um you know they the fixed income is going to be eroded with inflation. um they're they tend to be, you know, more property wealthy at that point,
033but unable to weather the storm as much. So, targeting for those folks would be the way to go about it. But that's not what happens with that cash reserve. And you know, with all due respect, and it's it's it's great to see people become very wealthy in life, but if somebody has a three or4 million home versus somebody that has $150,000 home, the person with the three or4 million home is going to get a significantly larger chunk of money than the $150,000 home if the relief is on a PRAA basis. And I get that again, you know, based on rates, it's the same. But in real dollar terms, it's like, why are you giving somebody who's potentially easily able to weather this storm so much money back when that could be really spread around in
034a way that could cover a lot more of these seniors on fixed incomes, which was the whole idea to, you know, trying to do this relief around the homestead exemption. So I I you know you're you're absolutely right and um yeah the guarantee and what it's done with you guys with inflation is is um what what can I say? It's not good at all. Yeah. The the other thing is like all the as you know all the west side districts if you look at the per pupil spending we're all on the low end. So, you know, that they I think sometimes in Columbus they think that they see some of these districts that spend a lot of money per student and think they can afford to make some cuts. That's not necessarily true of everybody.
035And this formula or really any formula is going to hurt us because we've already made all those cuts and they haven't made those cuts yet. So, so there's not there's really not much to cut. So, you know, we've got a $90 million budget. Yeah. Can you cut a h 100red,000 here, 200,000 there? Yeah, but we can't afford to cut three or four million dollars out of there without affecting the quality of service that the kids have received. So I once again I appreciate all your all your efforts to to take care of of the the public schools in the in the area that you represent. Appreciate that. Just a couple uh comments on my side as as the CFO of the district. Um, you know, we talked as an administrative team and as a board.
036Oh, shoot. We started this conversation a year and a half ago, uh, talking about property tax reform and the committee that was established and there were 21 different recommendations. And of those 21 recommendations, uh, this 30% or this 25% was nowhere to be found. And so, as Senator Bless Blessing mentioned, uh, this came out of nowhere and it it's left everybody by surprise and you hear a bunch of proposals, but to actually have it pass the House uh, is a concern. And so, it's real and I I do appreciate, you know, reaching out to the general assembly. Obviously, we all know uh what this means, but just a reminder uh one operating levy that has been supported in 28 years. Uh with a 30% requirement, instead of one every 28 years, it'll be one about
037every 3 years. About one every 3 years, we'll either have to have a levy or we'll have to have significant cuts. Uh we do have uh negotiations every three years. the number of districts that would be taken over by the state of Ohio that are put into fiscal emergency would soar. And what does that mean being put into fiscal emergency? Essentially, it erodess the local control and it erodess your position as a board to govern our local school district. Uh other items, uh the intentional pro the intention of this being property tax relief only impacts some, not all. Uh, and I think as important as anything, we started a conversation about new buildings in Oakills. We haven't had new buildings in Oak. You're you're sitting in the newest building in 1997. Our community supported a
038levy to build this building in Rapid Run in 1997. We're embarking on a construction project as we speak. And so when we embark on that, that discussion really started with our community over a year ago. And when that discussion started, we based it on the rules that had been established for the last 50 years. And the game has been the same rules for the last 50 years. And our community understood those rules and as a result, we made a decision where we likely pending board approval are going to consider new school buildings. Had we known that this is all going to the rules could change after 50 years, maybe that decision wouldn't have been made by our community and now our board has to wrestle with it. So, thank you. Thank you. Thank you for
039everything. And I think it's important as well to understand, you know, Senator Blessing came up with the idea of a means test, right? The the one last year and so it was an income based if you have any thoughts on that. Yeah. So, so the idea was to change the homestead exemption that's currently constituted, which I mean really isn't much of a benefit if you exclude sort of the the grandfathering in that took place about 13 years ago. Broadly speaking, using simple numbers, even though it's been indexed for inflation, um you get if you qualify, if you're over the age of 65 and um you make less than 36,000 a year, uh you can get 25,000 roughly off the valuation of your home. So, you have a $200,000 home, uh you get that homestead exemption,
040it gets knocked down to 175,000. your taxes are based off the assessed rate of that. You know, it's a modest uh property tax relief that you might get from the current homestead exemption. Problem is is like anything else, if you if you're a penny below 36,000, you get the full 25,000. If you're a penny above, you get nothing. Even though as a practical matter, somebody making 36,000 and a penny uh is really no different than somebody just below it. So, the idea was to widen that and increase the income threshold uh upwards of around $100,000. Now, this isn't actually a bill that I have introduced cuz because LSC is trying to wrestle with this, but you would have it go all the way out to $100,000. The benefit would be significantly higher than uh the
041current $25,000, but it would scale down as income rises. So, for example, let's say that you're you did all the math with the assessed rate and you know your effective millage and so on and so forth and you were getting a benefit of, I don't know, $1,000 a year, for example, uh at that lowest tier where your income is below $40,000. If you happen to be making 50,000 or 60,000 living in that same home, you might get $700. If you were making $80,000, you might get $400. The idea being that it's means tested. There's different tiers. And if you happen to be high to begin with on the income ladder, let's say you were at 100,000 and didn't qualify. But as inflation eats away at your income, you actually go back up that ladder in
042reverse. So that benefit becomes better and better and better as your income is roed eroded away. So, it's it's a sort of um I don't have a good qualifier for you here, but but either way, it's it's meant to work with people that lose their their incomes due to inflation. So, the nice part about that is is that it would be fully state funded. Uh we do have the money to do something like this. We even passed a proposal like this out of the Senate last cycle. Um, but it's just there's a number of members that will say, "Look, we don't want to spend state money on this." And it's like, well, if you're not going to spend any state money on something like this, the alternative is that you have to rob Peter to
043pay Paul at the local level uh to offer that property tax relief. So, the only other proposal was the property tax circuit breaker, also very expensive. Oh, actually, not the homestead exemption wasn't too too expensive. I want to say that was uh 300 million over the course of 3 years. Property tax circuit breaker is significantly more expensive. But again, you know, if you look at our tax expenditure list, some of the things that are very offensive there that we have carveouts for, um if any of you think private jet time shares should have a nice little sales tax cap, a nice little carveout, um you know, be my guest. But it's things like that that add up that are in our tax expenditure list that uh cost the state to a tune of $12 billion
044per fiscal year. And we could easily trim that to provide for that state level uh property tax relief, which admittedly um the property tax circuit breaker was the only proposal that actually got the Ohio Association of School Business Officials, the treasurers to come out and say, "We like it. We're good with it. It holds schools harmless." you know, we'll work with you on this. I thought that was spectacular, but I guess that's not much of a selling point with my colleagues, stole my thunder because I out of the 22 proposals, his was the only one that got support from from our association. So, really appreciate, you know, the in innovative thinking and so on and so forth. Unless the board has any other thoughts, questions. Uh Senator Blessing again, you know, as far as the
045timeline, next steps, uh Senator Blessing mentioned, you know, there will be uh Senate meetings here coming up, obviously committee meetings. Uh and then as of now, tenatively June 12th is the date that this is supposed to go to the floor for a full vote out of the Senate. Uh from there it'll go into conference committee uh and iron out their differences and uh to the de to the desk of Governor DeWine by June 30th uh to determine our next two years of funding uh which represents about 35% of our overall funding. So we'll keep our antennas up. And again on behalf of the board, Bill, we really appreciate it. Thanks for your friendship. Thanks for all the advocacy. And I'm sure we'll be in touch. So thank you again indeed. Thank you guys. Thank you.
046Okay. Um, three other items on the agenda this evening. Uh, the next item on the agenda is just just a comment that's in our in your board packet. Uh, is the annual audit, comprehensive annual financial report. Uh, we did receive an unmodified opinion. Our annual audit. Uh, an uni unmodified opinion essentially means that we received a clean audit. So, hats off to our entire staff, uh, teachers, support staff, classified staff, administrative team, uh, shout out to my team, uh, as well. Uh, really appreciate all the efforts of everyone to meet the expectations of the district with the clean up. Uh, May is item C on the list here is the 5-year forecast. Uh, so twice a year, we formally present the forecast to the board. Uh I know um we've gone into great levels of
047detail this evening. I'm going to go a little bit shorter than usual. Uh but just really a high overview level of where we are financially uh and you know how the state budget could impact our financial situation moving forward. I think it's important to understand as well that the House version of the state budget that was passed would change from a 5-year forecast to a three-year forecast. So that's a little bit unique. Uh and um also you can only spend uh you can't spend any more than 15% of funds on administrative funds which we would not run into that issue here at O'Kills. Uh so just briefly our financial forecast I know our board of education is aware of this uh but as you as the community as you as a taxpayer as you as
048a constituent where does your money go uh when you invest $1 in Oak Hills where does it go? 79 cents on the dollar goes directly to uh operations of the district. What are operations of the district? What does 79 cents represent? That 79 cents represents our student teaching and learning. Uh represents administrative cost, operation costs, so on and so forth. That's that's our general fund. That's the biggest piece of the pie. 79 cents on a dollar. 13 cents goes to our permanent improvement fund for the infrastructure of our district, maintaining our facilities, our roofs, our windows, pavement. 13 cents That 8 cents on the dollar goes to Rapid Run Middle School, which again was voted by our community in 1997, which will be paid off in full in 7 months, and we'll talk about that
049here briefly. So, let's talk about the 79 cents on the dollar, our general fund. So, a projection was provided in the fall on our 5-year forecast as far as revenue. And uh you can see our fall projection was 91 million approximately and the spring actual right now projection that's coming in uh is about 91.5 million. So, the variance is is right in line on our our revenue uh in the general funds uh at less than a half% from original projection. go in a little bit greater detail. Where does the money come from uh in our general fund? Uh the largest portion is local property taxes. You can see the variance there. Really all the variances that our material obviously lined up. Um we'll have a reappraisal here coming up again um in another year. So
050we'll see what property values do at that time which could impact that line. As our community is aware, we do have some development that's going on in our district. Trailside village is the largest development over there um behind uh graders and dwies over there, you know, by zip tip in that general area. So, we're keeping a keen eye on that because that can certainly increase our property taxes uh here moving forward once that construction is complete. We just talked about state funding uh and then our tax increment funding is is essentially our local funding as well. revenues are lining up with the original projection as our expenditures. So, our expenditures came within uh almost right on the dollar uh at 92 million. Uh or we really don't have a variance which is great news. Again,
051going in a little bit greater detail on original projections in the fall compared to where we're trending. Um really just kind of note here, there are two biggest pieces of our expenditures just like any school district, our personnel, our salaries and benefits. Uh to note for the board, uh salaries are driven by negotiations, by negotiated agreements, collective bargaining. Our current collective bargaining agreement expires one year from now. And so next year at this time, uh we will team uh with both of our unions to determine a fair compensation package moving forward. salaries benefits our second largest expenditure to note for the board benefits. Mr. Becket Hop and I represent the district on our consortium. We're part of a large larger group of 10 school districts. Uh we have trended very very well historically joining our
052our consortium of 10 school districts with our medical rates. Unfortunately, this upcoming renewal doesn't look as promising. We're looking at a larger increase of about 14% at this time. So, we'll continue to keep our eye on that. Uh we continue to educa educate our staff about ways that we can try and mitigate our risk with regards to health insurance. Our cash balance uh again is is trending exactly where projections originally fell. And so, you know, that's that's where we are with our uh with our general fund. The other 8% is our uh department and building operations funds for supplies, professional development, so on and so forth. And again, that's trending with uh original projection. Where are we uh visually looking at it? Our general fund, our fiscal health and the general fund. Uh typically we
053try to have a reserve as we we talked a little bit with Senator Blessing, we try to have a reserve at minimum of 25%. Uh as you can see, uh historically, and I know this is difficult to see, but on the left essentially, if you're in green, uh you're in a financially stable position. As we trend toward the yellow, uh action is typically needed. So, a number of these things historically have been out of our control, whether it be STRS, whether it be CO funding, whether it be a reappraisal of property taxes. Uh, but the long and short of this is is moving forward, uh, we're well aware of our financial position, uh, which is going to going to decline here, uh, pretty quickly here in the next really 12 to 36 months, uh, moving
054forward. So, the board administrative team um, just to be aware of that moving forward. and you can see where we are today. Uh just briefly on stewardship, uh how are what's your return on your investment? Uh just for the record, the Ohio funding system drives and forces schools back to the ballot. Forces schools to reach out to the local community. Uh there have only been four schools that have stayed off the ballot as long as Oak Hills. Our last operating levy was in 2013. You can see there North Dodge Hill, Mount Healthy, Three Rivers, uh in Oak Hills. Um, we've been the longest off the ballot. If Mount Healthy passes tomorrow, uh, that will obviously mean that there's only two in that vote other than OIL. So, we've done a tremendous job of preserving our
055resources. Again, that's a little bit more detail uh on who is u who's been on the ballot uh more recent than Oills. Wrapping things up. Any questions on the general fund? Okay. Uh wrapping up the other two portions of our our budget, our permanent improvement fund, which is our infrastructure, our facilities. Again, that's 13 cents on the dollar. Uh our permanent improvement fund uh consists of again all the infrastructure of the district. Um we do have uh debt issues. Uh the high school auditorium is the largest debt issue that will be paid off out of the permit improvement fund. Um transportation, we earmark funds for three buses every year. uh technology. We have a partnership with Varttech uh that extended uh we extended that one more year for the time being and so that'll be
056that's a large portion of our permanent improvement fund. Uh and then as we talked we have reserved and earmarked funds for potential building projects. So if we need to borrow funds you can see there uh the earmarked 1.1 million projects coming up Mr. Nash. Uh if you have any jump in here, but really you know some of the larger projects coming up here in the permanent improvement fund at the high school. You can see there the parking lot times two uh the addition of student parking. Uh that would be at the north side of the campus of the high school repaving the front parking lot at the high school. U visitor bleachers uh and then large roofing projects at the high school as well. Hats off to Mr. Nash. really all of our administrators have
057done a tremendous job of getting our infrastructure needs on cycles uh so we're not running into emergencies on our you know on our building grounds. Uh you can see our cash balance is in a stable place uh for our permanent improvement fund. And then to wrap things up uh our debt service fund rapid run will be paid off in 7 months um if the community decides to reinvest pending board approval. If the board decides to move forward with a bond issue, uh the district won't collect any additional taxes. It would be a seamless transition, uh the district would not have to receive any additional revenue. Uh based on all of the engagement that we've done so far and by the way, that project, the state would pay 60 cents on the dollar. Uh so it's
058better than buy one get one free as far as new facilities and new schools. Um and so that's an opportunity that the community has been engaged about. I know Mr. Brand will say a little bit more here. Um, but certainly a great opportunity that hasn't been addressed since 1997. A lot there. Any questions? I know there's quite a bit. All of this will be publicly posted on our website. There's any questions, uh, welcome anyone to reach out. One thing I didn't mention just to uh echo as well with our retirees this evening um the state teacher retirement system STRS recently changed the retirement eligibility from 33 years down to 32 years. That's good news for everyone. Uh so moving that to 32 years uh that's a temporary for a 3 to 4 year period but
059um you know hopefully uh folks will be able to uh consider that opportunity that will be presented now moving from 33 to 32 years. Is that does that start immediately? I mean could they literally somebody retire? So, have we heard from anybody? That's not yet. Looking at people had an opportunity to really plan it. It just happened over spring break. So, it's for the next 5 years. So, between now and 2030, uh folks can can retire for the next 5 years in that window. So, if you hit 32 years between now and 2030, you can retire with an unreduced benefit. But like I said, it happened just over spring break. I don't know that people it happens so quickly and other people plan it out. So it is good news. It's another opportunity to from
060a district perspective that people in the future over the next 5 years may take that option which potentially could save the district, you know, dollars there. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. B. Hey, next up we have a superintendent report. It's my pleasure to introduce Will Vinemper's principal report and thank you for all of your patience. We really appreciate that parents were being receiving. Thank you for probably never seen a middle school student get excited uh when it came to a 5-year forecast, but when you said you were going to do the student parking lot, Mr. Levenson here, who's getting ready to be a driver in the next few years, gave All right, give me just a second. Okay, you ready? Yeah. So, I have I have the pleasure uh of spending my day with 640
061of of these every day, which is fantastic. Um, but we are here to share a little bit about a little project we've had. instead of talking about attendance numbers and testing data and and and money and that sort of thing. Um I want to share a little bit about something fun that we we've had going on here and these guys all of these guys represent. Um so to introduce the staff and then more or less I'm going to introduce the staff that are doing this because these guys at the high school right now doing the track meet. Miss Shaki is busy tonight as well. Um and then we went through this presentation and they're you're going to hear from them more than me because you've heard enough from adults tonight. Uh, Miss Argo is one
062of our eighth grade math teachers and she her place in the building is in the basement in the back of the building and she gets to overlook the amphitheater that's back there which I would invite you to go check out tonight when you leave if you would like to. Um, she loves the garden. She combined that with a application for a grant from the alumni foundation. I point to Mr. Ward back there in the back. Um, she wanted to spruce up the idea or the the space in the back. She wanted to get students involved. back to attendance numbers. It's no mystery. Students being involved is one way you get kids who want to come to school. Um, so it started off as a project and what she told me is then kids just kept
063coming and they kept asking me questions and so she turned it into a club. She made it more of a regular deal. Miss Shaki is uh one of our instructional aids and she works with our eighth grade students. She is a master gardener. She loves when we redid the front of the building, uh, she gave me all kinds of ideas on what it should look like and she wanted to make sure that it was something that was ecological and pollinator friendly. So, these these two staff members are who these guys have all worked with. They started this idea. They they ran with it. They applied for the grant and they led what you will now hear about from uh these young men and ladies. I'll let them introduce themselves to you individually. So, they took
064some time and I'm going to let them go over this with you. Uh, but I'm going to release the reigns and let them share their experiences with you. So, Avery, you want to give introduce yourselves and tell us why you Oh, here I'll be. Hi. Uh, my name is Avery and I'm eighth grader at Rapid Run and I joined Garden Club because I love being involved with my school. And just the idea of making um, just the back of the school look prettier than usual just put a smile on my face and made me feel like I could contribute something that um, expresses my creativity to our school. Hi, I'm Stella. I'm also an eighth grader at Rapid Run. And I joined Garden Club because I wanted to be involved in more activities after school
065along with art club, which I also joined because I think that I'm a very creative person. And I like to share my art with people and with the school. And what actually drew me into joining Garden Club in the first place is my teacher, Miss Argo, told me that we would be painting rocks. And so outside in the back we have um this area of mulch which is surrounded by like a snake that we made out of different sized rocks which more people than just who are over here um spent a lot of time painting and I think it all looks really good. And I also love my teacher and I love my friends who are in it and I joined so that I would be able to spend more time with them. Hi Alex.
066I'm also an eighth grader. Um, and I joined Garden Club because I've enjoyed gardening for years and I started gardening with my grandma in her backyard growing peppers and tomatoes. And that inspired me to grow a garden at my house. And when I saw that Misargo was starting the garden club and something like that, it made me really happy and I signed up immediately. And it makes me really happy when people look at the flowers and all the plants and they smile. It makes me happy too because I know that I made someone else's day better. So that's just why I Hi, I'm Jason and I'm also in eighth grade. I joined Garmin Club because I wanted to contribute to the school and join into something active and fun, which it is. Um I I'm
067the person that likes to not wear gloves when I'm gardening. I get more active. And the other day, like um last week, um we were digging um to plant some sunflowers and I didn't have a shovel, so I dig I dug with my hands. I had a lot of fun. Um, something else is, um, I feel like I'm the one that, um, likes to, um, what is it? I like to entertain the others by a very good job. And one time that Alex told dad jokes, I ran into wood because kept making terrible dad jokes. Do you want to tell them that you told me earlier? Well, that's pretty much it. Let's go, Jason. I'm Audrey and I'm a sixth grader. I joined because I wanted to learn how to garden and I've never really
068did it before but I thought it would be fun and it encouraged me to start my own garden at him because I enjoyed it so much. I also wanted to contri contribute to our community and our school. So Audrey is going to share that this this is a a mix of uh the members that we have here, right? And we have everybody from sixth grade on up to 8th grade, including these four who like to come and they they weren't planning on speaking. They just came to be a part of the presentation because they're they enjoy what they do so much. Right. Okay. So now we're going to go through uh just a little bit of the timeline, just a few slides. get uh Tweedled and Tweedled Dum back up here. They're going to tell
069you a little bit about how we got going. You can decide. So, um for August and September, we weren't here for that first part. The Mrs. Argo and M Shaki met with the director of education and the civic garden center. I we didn't do much with that but mostly for the demo and the planning what we did was we removed the rocks which you can see in the picture and we removed a lot of weeds. And what's funny is that one time we put too many rocks in the in the wagon that we have right there and the wheel broke and it took us like half an hour just to fix it. So that's just like a little fun story that we had. And then after that, we started to fill them with healthy soil
070for them because a lot of it was really dry and wasn't suited. And then yeah, we added cow poop mineral. Sorry. Sorry. um just what fertilizer whatever we added it and we added that and then after that we had spent a little bit of time tilling the soil so we could grow stuff and it was really hot. It was very hot and it was it was really fun. It was a great time. During the October months, we planted tulips, um, daffodils and, um, kids ball and black ice susans, which are, um, in the amphitheater. Um, on the other side where Mago store is, there's some black eye susans that we planted, wild flowers also, I believe. And, um, We also had the like specialized classrooms help parent rocks and stuff like that. So those are
071the other people that Stella um said that helped that aren't here. So then we kind of slid through. Obviously November and March are not the greatest times to garden. Yeah. Right. Oh, you did. I'm not trying to take away but this is what we Good. Um, for the November one, we made um like winter bird feeders out of um pine cones and bird seeds and peanut butter. So, we put the pine cones into the peanut butter and then put them into the bird seed, mix it up a little bit, and then tie a string around it before. And then we hung it up on trees around the school and also like a stand for them. And um the stand was outside the Miss Argo window and we saw birds all day and during more during
072that part just like he said we had the specialized classrooms helped us paint rocks but beforehand we had them help us plant some of the tulip bulbs. And during this time we also harvested some miracle seeds and we planted some seeds in pots to grow with indoor lights. I remember we grew one of the plants we were growing trying to grow is carrots so that if we could get them to grow we could feed them to bolts which was really cool. Um Jason and Avery both made QR codes for us and we spent a couple time couple meetings of us planning for what we were going to do in the spring and that's pretty much all we did during November and March other than one time where we went into the woods to dispose of
073pumpkins. Yeah, that was during the winter. That was very that was very fun. That was something that we Yeah. Well, it was during the winter and I walked in the Greek with Alex and Michael. It was it was a very fun thing that we found something to do relating to the party during the winter months. And that's it. Um, in most recent months, April and May, we started finishing up like some of the stuff that we were working on for Garden Club for the year. And we're trying to get done like as much as possible before we actually end for the year. So, we planted some stuff like Senas, Black Eyed, Susan's, Merryolds, and Sunflowers. And we planted them like up in the amphitheater. Um, we planted them on like all of the tiers where
074those two put mulch in place of the rocks and we weeded all those areas. It took a little while. On the other side of the building, there's like more stone steps which had so many weeds you like couldn't see the soil. So, we spent lots of time picking that out. We planted all the flowers very carefully. And we um got these tiles from our art teacher, which I did paint one myself. Um they're mandalas made by all the eighth grade students and we put those at the very top of the amphitheater. So now there's lots of colors and it all looks very good. Um so throughout um so there was a couple weeks a couple weeks ago these flower the bulbs that we planted um that what uh Alex and Jason were talking about they
075the bulbs that we planted they bloomed into these flowers that you see on the presentation. Um, so and now they have all wilted and sadly died kind of, but you will see them when they come back up next spring and they will be there for longer and they will look a lot healthier and they will be just beautiful throughout the year. Um, also for the QR codes, um, we I made a camera presentation and Jason put them on QR codes that we could put on little like sticks in the ground. So, um, if you scan QR codes down in the gardens with your phone, they'll tell you all about these flowers and how, um, uh, we planted them and what how what what they need to live and survive. So, lots of teamwork, creative thinking,
076getting dirty, making bad decisions. Um, but ultimately was very driven by them. uh facilitated by Miss Argo, Miss Shaki. Um the more of these kinds of things we can do, obviously we want kids to come to school, but we want them to contribute to their school. We want them to enjoy being in school. And so these kinds of things are the things that, you know, you may not see in a presentation or a budget sheet or anything like that, but it's what we want to bring to everybody's attention. So, um lastly, again, thank you to the alumni foundation. They donated, I think, $1,000 to cover plants and mulch and to get rid of the to, you know, bird feeders and to get rid of the the gravel that was back there and really to start
077to revamp it. And there's plenty more space back there. And this is a multi multi-year. It's not It's beautiful in sections. It's a multi-year project. So, uh, thank you very much. Thank you guys. You did a fantastic job. Do you guys have any questions? Stumpers go to Jason. Um, stumper. Like stump questions. Really hard questions. giving you any questions or anything you guys may have. I don't have any questions, but I wanted you eighth graders, I wanted to encourage you continue to do things like this as you move on to the high school. And I'm not sure we'd have a garden club at the high school, but if we don't, you could certainly try to start one there. And then I hope that you I know at least you are a sixth grader. I'm not
078sure about the other ones. If you continue to um And you're seventh, right? No, you're eighth. I I hope you you continue this um at Rapid because um it's really important that you're not only doing something for the school but that you find um like-minded people that you spend your time with because it makes things much more enjoyable which I know some of you mentioned is the reason you you're involved. I think that's very important. So I'm glad to see you all participating in something that you enjoy so much. This is encouraging us to come back next year for rapid whoever you want. Yeah. Okay, great. I believe she's also going to try to do it during the summer technical difficulties, but thank you again very much. Um it's it's nice to see people doing
079um things that are maybe a little bit different than the typical things we hear of. So, I appreciate that. I'll just add you guys did a phenomenal job presenting. It was a lot of fun, very enjoyable. So, thank you very much. Great job. Thank you guys. If you want to stay, you're welcome to stay. You are also Okay, next up we have director reports. Yeah, just give a quick update on massive facilities uh for employee development session. As uh public probably knows by now, we've been working with SHP with the board. Um and we're we're continuing to monitor some some enrollment numbers that we've been challenging with OFCC and we're hoping to get that uh here momentarily over, you know, the next couple weeks. Uh we'll talk a little bit more about potentially a change
080in plans from development session to a special later in the agenda in the board discussion. So right now again um you know uh I think you guys have all heard the presentation and SHP and our CAT team have done a tremendous job. We appreciate that partnership with SHP and we also appreciate the CAT team uh in terms of of their time and the commitment. We met four times to make some recommendations uh that you guys are aware of and again we can talk a little bit more about that under board discussion. But I also want to let the board know uh we have sent out the survey uh from the community forums. We had two of them with great attendance, great questions. So, we appreciate those that were able to attend, those that were not.
081The link is out on our website atlsd. us under the facility page, and you can find the form there as well as the QR code. But, uh, thank you, Mr. Grankey, for his work in getting that survey out to all of our parents uh, in the community. And we did that for the second time today. So, I I think we're nearing over 300 responses and we'll keep that open for a little bit longer just so we can try to gather more feedback so that we can help you guys make a more informed decision as we as we move forward with this endeavor. Any questions on on the master facility plan at this point. Like I said, we'll talk a little bit more about some plans as we get into the board discussion at the end
082of the agenda. Without further ado, I would like to introduce Dr. Tim Sabolski, assistant superintendent. I want to talk to you a little bit about uh the Oak Hills alternative school plan. Thank you, Mr. Brandt. I'd like to invite the board to take a look at a document that I placed in front of you before the meeting. So, what we'd like to do tonight is just help the board understand uh a uh step we need to take in regards to support our alternative program in the district. So to be aligned with Ohio Department of Education and workforce regulations, next school year, we're going to open an online school in the district. Uh that's based on the fact that any student that is receiving their instruction greater than 50% of their time would need to be
083in an online school that's designated as such by the state department. And so, um, as you can see the information we thought we'd want to share with you tonight. This is kind of a general overview. We would intend to give you a much deeper look at this, uh, at a future board development session. Uh, we have not identified the name of the school yet. Uh, it will be identified a K through 12 school even though the predominant number of students that we will serve in it will be from the high school. If we looked at the numbers this year that we're serving, we would be somewhere in the neighborhood about 150 of our students. And again, that's predominantly 9 through 12. Is it possible during the school year we could have students from another grade?
084Yes. But it would be very unlikely. Those have to be very specific student needs that we were addressing. What does this mean? It means that this school will be identified with its own number just like all of our other buildings, but it's a virtual school, right? So students are receiving their instruction online and it would receive its own building report card. We would continue to serve students through an online portal. We're currently using what is called Pearson Kexus which offers a host of robust courses that are aligned with the curriculum in the state. Students would continue to receive their devices and need if they need internet access, we would provide that which we've been doing in our district for many years. As you can see, we'd have two different schedules for students. That's the whole
085purpose of offering alternative program course is to respond to our students needs. We would have a morning session as it's as it's stated and an afternoon session. This uh additional new school will not require any additional hiring. Uh current staff would be identified and assigned. Uh, as you can see, based upon our visits to other local school districts, we learned that a model that resonated with us would be to ensure students have the time necessary uh to meet the state requirements for hours, but also to give our teachers enough time to prepare and also to attend to attendance needs. Based upon other districts, we've learned that that is a significant uh need when you go to an online option. The state has very strict requirements for what is counted towards appropriate attendance like meeting attendance
086requirements. And so when you look at the model where it talks about on the Fridays teachers have time for planning, it's because during the week Monday through Thursday, they will not have their normal planning schedule. It will be all a masked on one day on Friday so that they can take care of attendance needs plan and also still meet with students but it's mostly focused on managing because of the requirements associated with taking attendance. As you can see, we would have one English teacher, a math teacher, and an IBS support our students. And there'd also be a lead instructor responsible for monitoring um and managing the the students that are enrolled in this program. As you can see as well at the end, there's a lot of other questions we know, I'm sure you're going
087to have and we just thought that due to the timing of this uh step that we had to take. We wanted to introduce this to the board tonight and then hopefully in the summer we can spend a much greater, you know, more time and bring in the high school staff to kind of take a deeper dive and address some of those other matters that are on the document. But that being said, obviously we'd like to answer any general questions at this time. So is this mostly it says the kids that are doing more than 50% online. So is this mostly kids that are already doing stuff online? We're not looking to add a 100 new students or anything like that. That is correct. Yeah, I guess my question was similar. This is not something people
088could opt into. This is something that we put students in. Well, that all depends on the guidelines we would create. But current but currently that is correct. Currently we are looking at students that have a significant need and coming into Oak Hills High School does not meet that need. And so right now it is generally you know conversations that happen between counselors or administrators with families. But again when we create those guidelines those are the types of things that we will need to address. Okay. So it says it'll have a separate building uh report card. So, I'm guessing today there's approximately 150 students. They're in the high school. That's correct. And I will say this, uh, the report card, in order for you to have certain indicators, you have to meet certain thresholds of the
089number of students who take the respective uh assessments in that grade level. So what I what I mean by that is if you only have uh if you have less than 15 students say in a grade level take an assessment that particular test would not be reported on that report card right now with the distribution. I don't see that being a problem. But what I'm saying is say we had a couple students from our middle school that were actually in this K through2 online program. They would have to take the assessments. But because we only had two students, say two sixth graders, their scores wouldn't show up on that specific report card and we wouldn't get an indicator for that particular grade. So it's only the grades where we have enough students that can be
090tested and right now it would be uh if we look at our numbers this year be for our high school students. So we would have a graduation rate you know achievement progress etc. Other questions? Okay. Thank you. Thank you, Dr. S. That's all I have on direct report. Thank you. Did we have any sign up this evening? Anything under old business for this evening? No old business to report. We can move on to new business, Mr. President Treasur's recommendations item number one minutes. I recommend that the board of education approve the minutes of April 7th development session as well as April 28th as attached. So moved. Second call roll please. Mr. Orwell. Yes. Mr. Spa. Yes. Mr. West. Yes. Mr. Hy. Yes. Mrs. I Yes. Item number two. I recommend the board of education approve
091the following donations from Bridgetown Middle School PTA, Jessica Castellini, Westside Community Band, Kelly and Brian Welley, National National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, American Heart Association, Nancy and James Cider, Udis Del IRA as submitted. So moved. Second. Call the roll, please. Mrs. Felpot, yes. Mr. West, yes. Mr. Hayy, yes. Mrs. Eyeball, yes. Mr. Oran, yes. Item number three, I recommend the board of education app for the updated boltout scholarship allocation as attached. So moved. Second. Call the roll, please. Mr. West, yes. Mr. Hayy, yes. Mrs. Ibold, yes. Mr. Orban, yes. Mr. yourself. Yes. Item number four, I recommend the board of education approve the following appropriation adjustment as submitted. So move. Second. Call a roll, please. Mr. Hayy, yes. Mr. Lord, yes. Mr. Yes. Mrs. Philpot. Yes. Mr. West. Yes. Item number
092five, I recommend the board of education approve the 5-year financial forecast as attached. So moved. Second. Call the roll, please. Mrs. Eyold, yes. Mr. Orban, yes. Mrs. Felpot, yes. West, yes. Mr. Yes. Thank you. Thank you. Next up, we have superintendent's recommendations. Thank you. Item number one, I recommend the board approve the classified administrative compensation schedule as attached. So move. Second. Call the roll, please. Mr. Organ, yes. Mrs. Philpot, yes. Mr. West, yes. Mr. Hy, yes. Mrs. Eyel, yes. Item number two, I recommend the board approve the policy revisions to the Oakill local school district policy manual as adapt. So moved. Second. Call roll, please. Mrs. Philpot, yes. Mr. West, yes. Mr. Hayy, yes. Mrs. Ibel, yes. Mr. Oran, yes. Item number three, I recommend the board approve the following personnel actions A through W
093as submitted. So moved. Second. Call, please. Mr. Le, yes. Mr. Hy, yes. Mrs. Eyel, yes. Mr. Orban, yes. Mrs. Phil, yes. Item number four, I recommend the board approve the following personnel action A through A as submitted. So move. Second. Call the roll, please. Mr. Ay, abstain. Mrs. Eyebold. Yes. Mr. Roman. Yes. Mrs. Phelp. Yes. Mr. West. Yes. Item number five. I recommend the board approve the following personnel action A through A as submitted. So moved. Second. Call roll please. Mrs. I vote. Abstain. Mr. Robot. Yes. Mrs. Snowbot. Yes. Mr. West. Yes. Tra. Yes. Item number six. I recommend the board approve the following personnel action A through A as submitted. So move. Second. Call the RO please. Mr. Orian. Yes. Mrs. Philpot. Yes. Mr. West. Abstain. Mr. Hayy. Abstain. Mrs. Zel. Yes. That's all
094I have. Thank you. And no one has signed up to address the board, so we can move on to board discussion. Yeah. So, uh, Steve, I've been tagging this a little bit. We, uh, at our last board meeting, as you board development session, I guess that was last week at this point, SHP came in and did a, uh, kind of put the board through the exercise of community forum with all the slides and and you guys got were able to participate in the survey as I mentioned earlier. And so again, we're we're waiting on results to continue to flow in from our parents and our constituent base to again help you guys have a better understanding of where our community is on those results. Happy to say that number continues to go up as we
095speak. And so really our next uh our next opportunity is to, you know, get a vote in terms of recommendation to the board. And because we are still challenging some of the numbers in particular uh at the middle school level with UFCC, we didn't feel uh comfortable asking the board or making a recommendation the board tonight to vote on that until we have what that impact may ultimately be. And so uh we are confident that we will have that answer as we uh move closer into that development session. And I believe Steve and I would recommend that instead of doing a development session on May 19th, we would change that and cancel and make that a special meeting with the purpose of of making a recommendation, a vote uh on behalf of the board as
096we move into our our facility, our master facility plan. And so I just want to throw it out there in case there's any other discussions about that. uh we do have time to make that decision obviously, but uh our recommendation would be to to to make that a special board meeting again for the purpose strictly of uh making a recommendation and a vote to move forward with the master facility plan which then would go to the OFCC for their approval and then obviously you guys would have an opportunity to still weigh that uh before the the August date that you would have to decide whether or not you want to put it on for a bond issue in November of 25. So, what's what's the deadline? Um, I know you said we'll probably have by
097May 19th, but if we don't, what's the absolute deadline for FCC to get the the vote to them? We know. I know I know it had to be in by I believe the 1st of June. Uh, so I think we had a little bit of time in there. I don't I don't commit to that. I can obviously get that back out. Um, but if we really want to make sure we can get uh approval from the OFCC uh prior to that November date, which maybe we're pushing it now, quite frankly, in terms of a bond issue and getting that approval back. Um, but as we know, the first round would the first days would really be uh from our constituent base if they wanted to renew the 97 bond. uh those dollars from the state
098through the OCC would come in round two which SHP projected as you guys remember um you know could be anywhere from 3 to seven years when that money may come in um that's just kind of a range that they've given at this point. So, but I was just concerned because they were so late getting the the initial reports to us that that you know I'm just wondering if we don't have it on May 19th when's that absolute deadline. So, we can check into that and move that meeting back or schedule another meeting or something. If there if there is an absolute deadline, they have to have it in. Just to reiterate reiterate Mr. Grant mentioned uh there are this this recommendation does not mean that Oakills is going on the ballot in November. There are
099two resolutions that need to be passed typically in July and August. Uh so May 19th is the next step of the process, but by no means does this mean that you know the board has moved forward with the bond issue in November. And that is a 6 p.m. not a 4M start. Any other questions or comments about that? That's all I have. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. Um, can I have a motion to move into executive session for the consideration of the employment of a public employee or official? Call the role, please. Mrs. Phil, yes. Mr. West, yes. Mr. Mrs. Yes. Mr. Yes. Okay. Well, we will not be returning uh to this room. We will adjourn after we're finished with executive session. So, thank you all for coming.